By Gideon C. Corgue
PAGADIAN CITY – Victims of the
recent fire here that destroyed 33 houses will receive financial assistance
from the city government this week.
This was announced by newly elected mayor Romeo
Pulmones during the distribution of relief goods to the fire victims last June
20 at Kawit barangay hall.
It can be recalled that a fire, which completely
destroyed 33 houses, occurred in Purok Bakhaw of
said barangay last June 18.
“We will try our best to give the financial
assistance on the first week of July,” Pulmones said adding that the emergency
relief assistance fund could not be immediately released since it has to
undergo proper accounting rules and procedures.
The chief executive said the assistance, though
too small, is sincerely given.
“The amount to be given is too small to
compensate the properties of the victims that they’ve lost to the fire but it
is heartily given,” Pulmones said who also admitted that it was his first time
to experience responding to the needs of the victims of a calamity.
The city government through the City Social
Welfare and Development Office and the City Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Office (CDRRMO) as well as the barangay council distributed relief
goods worth P66,000 to the affected families.
Punong barangay Sangcadra Dimasar said that after
convening the barangay council, it has donated P28,000 for the purchase of food
items for the fire victims. “We have distributed rice and used clothing to the
victims,” Dimasar said.
Meanwhile, fire victim Emma Malayan thanked the
city government and barangay council for
providing them relief goods.
“Akong
gipasalamatan ang city government ug barangay konseho paghatag kanamo ug relief
goods diin kami ilang gitabangan sa kalisod nga among nasinati (I
thanked the city government and the barangay council for providing us relief
goods, assisting us during the difficult times we went through),” said Malayan
whose newly renovated house was completely razed by fire. (PIA9)
